We've been talking about reigning faith, Amen.
And we've been going from Second Peter.
If we'll go back there, Second Peter Chapter 1, we've been
talking about 7 qualities that need to be added to our faith or
supplying our faith or ministering nourishment to our
faith. And we can call that seven
ingredients, 7 qualities or also 7 companions, you could call it,
that are going to be those that are going to help support our
walk of faith. And for us to operate fully in
faith, it's not just about knowing and becoming firmly
persuaded. It's about also having these
characteristics developed within our faith so that when we're
walking by faith, we're going to be able to see the promises come
to pass and have everything we need in that walk so that we
won't ever stumble or falter from our faith or receiving the
promises of God. And what He says that we can
obtain by faith by being firmly persuaded, right?
Again, these things are going to help bring a supply and a
nourishment to us so that we can remain firmly persuaded in our
faith. Because remember, we are to what
live by faith. We're to walk by faith.
This is called a lifestyle of faith.
We're not to live by sight. We're not to live by our
circumstances. We're not to live by what how we
feel and what we see and all the things going on around us know
we're to live by faith. We're to walk that out and the
way that our faith is going to be assured that we can have
victory every time if we have been diligently and that what
the Scripture said diligently supplying our faith with these
ingredients, ingredients to our life.
OK, so second Peter chapter 1 and one through 11.
I want to read it again. It says Simon Peter, a
bondservant, an apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have
received a faith of the same kind as ours, say I've received
a faith as the same kind as theirs.
Yes, by the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and
the and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that His divine power has
granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness
through the two true knowledge of Him who has called us by His
own glory and excellent. For by these He has granted to
us His precious and magnificent magnificent promises, so that by
them you may become partakers of his divine nature.
And having escaped the corruption that is the end the
world by its lust. Now for this very reason also
supplying all diligent or applying all diligence in your
faith. Here it goes verse 5.
Supply moral excellence, and in moral excellence knowledge, and
in your knowledge self-control, and in yourself control
perseverance, and in your perseverance godliness.
And in your godliness, brother, brotherly kindness, and in your
brotherly kindness love. For if these qualities are yours
and are increasing, isn't that what it says?
If they are increasing, so does God want things to increase in
our life? They render you neither useless
nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ. For he who lacks these qualities
is blind or short sighted, having forgotten his
purification from his former sins.
Therefore, brethren, by all the be all the more diligent to make
certain about His calling and choosing you.
For as long as you practice these things, you will never
what stumble. You'll never stumble.
For in this way, the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundant, recently
supplied to you. So we have broken down all of
these scriptures and we've talked about how we've been
given the same faith each and every one of us.
When we get born again, we have been given the same faith as the
disciples has, and the same faith that the disciples had is
the same faith that God said He brings to people's life.
OK? It's not a different faith that
the apostles had. It's the same faith.
And when we get born again, we get that same seed of faith,
that seed of faith planted in our heart.
And not only that, not only do we get faith, we get divine
power. When we get born again.
What does He say? That divine power is granted to
us to be able to walk in this life and be able to what have
everything we need in this life, and not just living this life,
barely making it through, barely getting along, but we will live
it godly. We will live it godly.
It's life and godliness. Amen.
And so then he lets us know that we not only have been given
divine power, not only have we been given faith, we have been
given the divine nature of God. Thank God.
Thank God, I no longer have to live by the sinful nature, but I
have a divine nature that's been given to me.
I am partakers. Come on, Hallelujah.
God himself come on, lives on the inside of us.
So he lets us know that all we have to do now is apply with
diligence to our faith, right? And we broke that word out.
Apply or supply. And that literally means add to
bring a supply to to furnish your faith.
It also means to minister nourishment to your faith.
So your faith needs more than just faith comes from hearing
and hearing from the Word of God.
No, your faith needs a supply of these 7 qualities operating and
nourishing you so that when you're in a situation where your
faith is there, listen, I'm going to be able to walk through
it and be able to receive it and see the tangible results of
faith, faith in my life because I've allowed him to nourish
these qualities in my life. And I want to read second Peter
one and 10 out of the amplified, just that last verse, because I
think it's so important the way the amplified reads it.
It says, therefore, believers be all the more diligent to make
certain about his calling and choosing you be sure that your
behavior. So these qualities and these
ingredients have to do with what your behavior, your character,
your actions, the way you function and you operate.
Great. It can be evident.
So he lets us know, be sure that your behavior reflects and
confirms your relationship with God.
So what is it that's going to confirm your relationship with
God? Just that you've come down and
asked him to come into your heart and save you.
No, there's some behavior that's going to confirm there's some
actions. What is it?
There's some change in your life that's going to be a proven fact
that you really are born again and have a relationship with
God. Because every the way you
operate, the way you behave, people can notice and see that
this is the operation of what he says a Kingdom citizen will look
like, Amen, a godly person, right?
So it says it will confirm your relationship with God.
For by doing these things actively and developing these
virtues, you will never stumble in your spiritual growth.
So he expects us to grow and will live a life that leads
others away from sin. And you have to ask yourself,
when you're around people, do you by your life and your
lifestyle and your behavior and your godliness bring people away
from sin? Or do you allow their behaviors
and their lifestyles and their actions bring you towards sin
again? OK, so there's evidence of you
being a child of God. There's evidence not just by
word but by demonstration because you've allowed these
qualities, not just because you, you know, say you have faith.
OK. And so we went through several
of the points. And last week we actually talked
about this point, and I didn't finish.
And I think it's so necessary that I finished this point and
we were on point #4 which is the fourth quality, which was
perseverance. Perseverance because I am
telling you right now, it is the ones that know how to persevere
in the midst of situations and circumstances in life where the
enemy is coming in like a flood. Come on, that you are going to
have to have perseverance to be able to overcome this situation.
And if you don't, you're not going to make it through.
You're not going to make it through.
And I have so many scriptural evidences of showing you how
important perseverance and endurance is in your life and
your walk of faith. And I'm seeing the generation
that we're living in that does not know how to persevere
through problems, that does not know how to overcome, does not
know how to endure. Come on the testing and the
trying of their faith. Every believer will walk through
testing and trying of your faith.
You will not get away from it if you're really going to live by
faith. We will all encounter this and
must have this quality supplying our faith walk, which is
endurance. And so perseverance we talked
about means steadfastness, consistency, and patient
endurance, right? Remember the Scripture, which we
probably will read it in a minute out of Hebrews, you know
who talks about we have to what it is through faith and patience
that we will inherit the promises.
But it's not just patience, it's patience, endurance.
And I think this key because it's not just about enduring,
oh, I'm just going to have to endure through this.
If I can just endure this, if I can just get through this month,
if I can just endure this teenage years, if I could.
No, it's not that kind of endurance, because again, I said
that's your own willpower, but not only is it your own
willpower, you're not really patient enduring, OK?
So patience and perseverance and endurance and consistency
counts. If you're going to see the
promises of God in your life, you must have it.
You must add it to your faith. Without endurance, you will not
win the victory. You can sing about the victory
all day long. You Can Dance about the victory
all day long. But if you don't know how to
endure to the victory line, you're not going to win.
You are going to faint and grow weary and shrink back and not
see the final result that God wants you to have.
You'll see a result, but it won't be the result you want.
OK, so perseverance is necessary.
Endurance is necessary that we have to be able to nourish our
faith and keep us in a place when we're going through
difficult situations or challenges or not even difficult
situations or challenges. How about just life and the
day-to-day mundane routine, right?
How about when you just feel like you maybe haven't, You
don't feel anything exciting. You know, there's people in the
Christian world that feel like every service has to be an
exciting service, and if it's not, then something's wrong.
So they run around to all the conferences that are going to
get you pumped up and running around and shouting and but I'm
going to tell you that's not going to help you endure.
There's time for it, yes, but that can't be what you live on.
Perseverance and endurance is what you live on that will
supply your faith to be able to get you through to the other
side. Amen.
So, so many things are having to be added to our faith.
And we read this out of Romans 5 and drop down to verse three.
I just want to remind you this, it says, and not only this, but
your joy. Let us exalt in our sufferings
and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that the hardship or the
pressure or the trouble or the distress produces patient
endurance. You see that?
And what and endurance? What is you learning how to
persevere through the situation that you're going through?
By faith, full of joy, walking it out every day, not feeling
like it, but you do it anyway. What does it say?
It proves your character. And so many people are not
allowing their character to be proven because they bail when
it's hard. They bail when it's difficult,
they bail when things don't go their way.
They bail when you know, I've been dealing with this quite a
while now, Lord, and I don't know how much longer I can
handle. I'm done and they bail.
And I'm not saying they may bail their whole relationship with
the Lord, but they bail on going through the necessary process
that it's going to take to mature your faith and to allow
your faith to actually grow, right?
So it will produce patient endurance and endurance proven
character. What is in the amplified proven
character is spiritual maturity. Remember, we've been talking
about the reigning church, and a reigning church is a mature
church. And you're only going to grow
and mature if you've allowed endurance to be a part of your
faith, right? If you've allowed yourself to
persevere through things knowing that by faith, I will walk this
out and I will overcome. You see that a proven character,
hope and confident assurance of eternal salvation.
So us walking through difficult situations is doing one or two
things. It's proving our character to
help us spiritually grow, or it's going to put us in a place
that we choose to stop growing and pushing forward.
OK, So we have to recognize how important that is.
Because remember, part of that endurance is us being steadfast.
And steadfastness means you continue to move even in the
midst of the battle, the trial, the situation, the things going
on. Steadfastness has movement to
it. That means you keep moving, but
so many people stop. You see what I'm saying?
And if you stop, you're not letting the endurance have its
perfect work within you to mature you.
All right, So it's necessary if we're going to see the victory
and be able to overcome. And I'm going to tell you it's
necessary because he says endurance must be a part of our
walk of faith if we're going to make it to the end.
We're going to read all of these scriptures.
So I don't know about you. I've been seeing a lot of people
not making it to the end, not going to church anymore, not
having anything to do with God anymore.
I mean, come on. I, I don't know about you.
I've been in this thing now 3536 years and and I've seen a lot
through and I see people today reconstructing their faith.
Come on all these terminologies. What does that mean?
They didn't allow these qualities to be added to their
faith. They did not grow.
They did not allow him to prove and test their faith.
So in first Peter 5 and verse 8 and 10, this is very important
because he says this, but resist him and be firm in your faith,
talking about the devil who goes around right prowling around
looking who he can devour. But what is he telling?
Resist him, be firm in your faith against his attack,
rooted, established, and be immovable, knowing that the same
experiences of suffering are being experienced by your
brothers and sisters throughout the world.
You do not suffer alone, but after you have suffered for a
little while, the God of all grace, who imparts His blessing
and favor, who called to you His own eternal glory in Christ,
will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you,
making you what you ought to be. Do you see that?
So there's some things that we have to walk through so that He
can strengthen, confirm us, mature us, and this Word
establish us. Because if you are not
established and rooted in your faith, you're going to fail when
the faith test comes. I don't know.
I don't care if you know how to quote Mark 1123 and 24.
You will fail if these have not been added to your faith.
And nourishing your faith and allowing endurance to grow
within you and perseverance to grow within you and moral
excellence to grow and develop within you.
Come on. And knowledge of God and who He
is, not just what He can give you, but who He is, who He is.
And I'm going to tell you we are going to have to be established
if we are going to remain immovable in the hours that we
are living, OK? And he wants us established.
I said this in every area when you read Second Peter and you
broke. We broke it down in complete
context. He is talking about he wants our
emotions in check and established.
He wants our body in check and established with
self-discipline. We already went through all of
that. He wants what our spirit growing
and strong, all parts of us. He wants this completeness
within us and this is what this scripture actually was talking
about in second Peter. He wants everything in check and
in alignment so that we can actually have reigning faith and
have dominion come on. We're we've got to get dominion
over our emotions. We have to get dominion over our
bodies. We are going to have to get
dominion over our spirit and letting our spirit come on,
continue to flourish and grow and say, I'm going to be, I'm
going to be self disciplined to feed my spirit.
Man, how many people are not even feeding their spirit?
The only food you get is on Sunday and Wednesday.
It's going to take more feeding than that.
Come on, Hallelujah. It's the one food you can eat
and eat. So he wants every area come on
to be in a place that we have full dominion over our life.
Amen. And that we can be people that
are going to be unshakeable and immovable off of our faith when
we're faced with a situation. James chapter 1 Remember, I read
this two and four. I just want to read it again.
Be assured the testing of your faith through experience
produces endurance leading to spiritual maturity and inner
peace. And let endurance have its
perfect result. So you see, we can choose not to
let it have its perfect result. Again, we can choose to say this
is too difficult, this is too hard.
I'm not going to walk through this emotionally.
I'm not going to let him, you know, deal with this area in my
life. I'm not going to do you know
what the word says in this situation because don't you know
how bad they've treated me? And do you think they deserve me
to da, da, da, da, da. Come on.
No, in these moments, we have to choose to have moral excellence.
We have to choose to allow him to do whatever he needs to do
within us so that we adjust and we walk it out the way he wants
us to walk it out, and not the way we want to walk it out.
And it's when we do those things, that's when endurance is
getting built. That's when perfecting is
happening. That's when character is being
developed. That's when spiritual maturity
is starting to blossom and flourish within your life.
Let it have its perfect result and do a thorough work, not just
1/2. See how good I was there?
Not just halfway. Don't let don't do it just
halfway. Let it be thorough.
Come on, let it be thorough. Hallelujah.
So that you may be perfect and completely developed.
Where in your faith so endurance has everything to do with your
faith, not just believe you receive when you pray or my
confessions that I say everyday or come on or how faith comes.
No. What about these, right?
What about these being added to my faith on a daily basis?
Come on. So that it, it can be developed
and what it says. Lacking nothing.
Hallelujah.
Do you know that, Jesus? How many of you know he is our
perfect example? He's our perfect example and do
you know he does not expect us to do anything that he himself
has not done. Only thing that we do not have
to do is physically die on a cross.
But we do have to die to ourself and we do have to pick up our
own cross. He did everything else and He
walked it out as a perfect example for us while He was here
in this earth. Yes, this same earth that we are
standing on. Jesus Christ Himself, if you
have not forgotten, was walking on the same earth.
And in Hebrews 12, it shows us an example.
Hebrews 12/2, it says looking away from all that will distract
us. Why is this important?
Because he says, if we're going to add these things to our, our,
our faith, we are going to have to be diligent.
We're going to have to have some discipline.
We're going to have to be diligent.
We're going to have to be intent on doing it.
It's not just going to fall off the tree of salvation, OK?
We're going to have to be diligent, it says.
Looking away from all that will distract us.
Focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is what?
The author and the perfector of what?
Our faith, Our faith, the first incentive for our belief, and
the one who brings our faith to maturity, Who for the joy of
accomplishing the goal set before him, what did he endure?
Did he have to endure some things?
Did he have to have endurance while he was on the earth?
Absolutely. Absolutely.
And He endured and He walked it out and did it on the cross so
that we don't have to. But He did have to endure the
cross and He did it. What did it say for the joy that
was set before him? He was joyous about the fact
that He was getting ready to have to go through an endurance
of the cross because he knew what that would produce, right?
And he knew that he was doing the will of His Father,
disregarding the shame. See, we know that Jesus in that
moment of him having to carry his cross and be stripped and
beaten and punched in the face and his beard ripped out and
blood pouring off his back and and people saying prophecy.
Now who punched you? You think you're the king of,
you know, the Jews, You think you're king.
What do you say now? He had to endure it.
The slander, the physical beatings, all of it.
He endured it so that we could walk into the relationship that
he had for us. So he endured these things,
disregarding the shame, and he sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God, Hallelujah, revealing his deity, His
authority, and the completion of his work.
Abraham, the father of our faith, the father of us all,
what's it say he had to walk through who is another example
of a person that actually lived by faith.
What does it say? In Hebrews chapter 611 and 15,
it says, And we desire that everyone of you do show the same
diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you
be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherited the promise. Come on.
For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear
by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely
blessing, I will bless thee, and multiply, I will multiply thee.
And so after he had patiently what endured, he obtained the
promise. Endurance has to be solidified
within our walk. If we're going to walk truly by
faith and see the promises of God obtained in our life, it's
going to have to be a part of our faith.
Hallelujah, look what he says in Galatians 6 and 9.
Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good.
For at the proper time we will reap if what we don't give in,
we don't give in. And the only way we're not going
to faint, we're not going to re we we're not going to fail is if
we've allowed endurance to be proven within our walk within
our life, because if we do not, we will, we will back up.
We will shrink back. We will not press through to
receive the promise. We'll give up.
We'll give up on God and we'll give up on ourselves.
Second Timothy chapter 4 and verse 3.
It says this for the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine. And we are living in that time,
we're living in that time, we are living in that time.
People will not endure sound doctrine.
But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers
having itching ears, meaning they only want to hear the good.
What makes them feel good, their best life now, what helps them
satisfy what they want? And they won't listen to sound
doctrine, which is there is sin. You shouldn't be doing these
types of behavior. Sound doctrine, which is you,
you know, should not marry a man if you're a man and a woman if
you're a woman. And sound doctrine like this is
a man, this is a woman. Sound doctrine like this is
evil. And this is good sound doctrine,
sound doctrine, which is the truth of God's word.
And so he's saying, listen, they're not going to endure
sound doctrine. They're just going to want, why
will they not endure sound doctrine?
Because they have not allowed endurance to even be a part of
their life. Because when times get rough,
tough or hard, what do they do? They run somewhere else that
makes them feel good. They run somewhere else that
makes them feel good, and they want to hear what they want to
hear, so they won't endure sound doctrine.
Second Timothy 4. Look what he says here in Second
Timothy chapter 1 or chapter 4135.
It says, I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of
Jesus Christ, who is the judge of the living and the dead, and
the appearing of His Kingdom. Preach the Word as an official
messenger. Be ready when the time is right
and even when it's not. Keep your sense of urgency.
Whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable,
whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether welcomed
or unwelcomed. Correct those who error in
doctrine or behavior. Warn those who sin.
Exhort and encourage those who are growing towards spiritual
maturity with inexhaustible patients and faithful teaching.
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound
doctrine and accurate instruction that challenges them
with God's truth. But wanting to have their ears
tickled with something pleasing, they will accumulate for
themselves many teachers, one after another.
They choose to satisfy their own desires and to support their
errors. They hold and will turn their
ears away from the truth and will wander off in myths and man
made fiction and will accept the unacceptable.
But As for you, be clear headed in every situation.
Stay calm and cool and steady. How about consistent Endure
every, every hardship without flinching, do the work of an
evangelist and fulfill the duties of your ministry.
And we know this is Paul talking to Timothy, who was the pastor
of the Ephesus church, the largest church during that time.
So what was he doing? He was warning them.
That there's a day coming, the people aren't going to want to
hear the truth, they're not going to want sound doctrine.
And the reason why they're not going to be able to endure it is
because they've never learned how to endure in their life.
They're not going to be able to endure it.
So he says, warn them if we do not add endurance and
steadfastness to our faith and become established and rooted
and mature, we'll end up being offended at the Word.
And I'm going to read the scriptures in a minute.
If we do not add endurance and steadfastness to our faith and
become established, rooted and mature, we will end up being
offended at the Word. And This is why they don't want
to hear sound doctrine. Look what he says in Mark
chapter 4. Mark chapter 4, verse 17, it
says, and they had no root in themselves.
They weren't established, they weren't rooted, they weren't
planted because those that are planted in the House of the Lord
will flourish. Why weren't there planted?
Because they were running around, hopping everywhere to
hear what makes them feel good and lets them stay in the place
that they want to stay. So and so endure, but for a time
afterwards, when affliction or what persecution arises for the
word's sake, immediately they are offended.
So the very word of God will offend your life if you are not
willing to allow that word to grow you and will use every
every other thing as a scapegoat because you're surely not going
to say you're offended at the word or God, but you will the
pastor, you will the leader in your area of ministry, You will
the come on the other person that you feel like was rude to
you when you walked in. Look at it, what it says in the
amplified Mark 4/17 it says. And they have no real root in
themselves, so they endure only for a little while.
Then when trouble or persecution comes because of the word,
immediately they are offended and displeased at being
associated even with me, and they stumble and fall away.
A true disciple of Christ who has allowed him to change your
behavior into a godly life. You will encounter persecution
if you never encounter persecution.
I want to really think about whether or not you've really
become the believer and the disciple that he says you should
be, because every single one of us is going to have to stand for
what we believe. And we can't be afraid to say,
no, I don't want that drink. I don't drink.
No, I don't think I'm going to take a drag of that.
No, I don't think I'm going to go to the strip joint with you
tonight like they tried to get my husband to do.
No, I don't think I'm going to read that.
And are, are you doing that or are you just not saying
anything? And, and and so you don't ruffle
feathers with people you are involved with, right.
So it says they're offended at his word, They're offended with
him. What about this one?
You're asking too much of me. God, like Pastor said on Sunday,
that's a hard saying. And what happened the the
disciples, those that were following at the time, all of
them left. And then what did they you going
to go to? It was a hard saying and they
were offended at that, saying nobody wants to use the word
offended because they know that's not a right word to use,
but that's what you are. That's what they were right
offended at the word 2nd Thessalonians 1 and 4.
It says this so that we ourselves glory in you and in
the churches of God, your patience and faith in all of
your persecutions and tribulations that you endure.
This was Paul praying for the Thessalonikis right Church, the
Thessalonian church and he said what he said that I'm so excited
that we can see what your patience and faith in all the
persecution and tribulations that ye endure that ye endure.
Endurance is a part of our walk with Christ that must be in
developed. Now look at this in Second
Thessalonians chapter 1 verses 3 and four in the amplified.
It says we ought to always indeed are morally obligated as
those in debt to give thanks to God for you, brothers and
sisters, as it is fitting because your faith is growing
even greater and the unselfish love of each one of you towards
one another is continually increasing.
Therefore, we speak of you with pride among the churches of God
for your steadfastness, your unflinching endurance.
There's that word unflinching endurance and patience and your
firm faith in the midst of all the persecution and what
crushing distress which you endured and endure.
So our faith must have endurance included in it so that it can
grow and become, what did he say?
Greater and increasing, growing, OK.
And when you get in situations and circumstances, it's not to,
you know, you know, keep you from being able to receive the
things that God has said that you can receive.
No, when you get in this situations, you have to realize,
I'm going to have to endure. I'm going to have to be patient.
I'm going to have to persevere and be steadfast and just keep
moving forward, put 1 foot in front of the other so that I can
overcome this and actually walk through it so that my faith can
actually grow and increase. Because every time you win a
faith battle, come on, it grows. Your faith grows.
It grows. Your faith grows stronger and
stronger. OK, Look at Mark 13 and 13.
We're closing down. It says this.
And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Well, that's lovely. Are you OK with people hating
you? I mean, we have a whole page of
hate on social media. Are you OK with that?
Right, he says, You will be hated of all men for my
namesake, but he that shall endure until the end, the same
shall be saved. You have to outlast it.
You have to outlast the trial. You have to outlast, come on,
the circumstance that's trying to keep you from pressing
through and walking through. Come on into the other side.
You have to learn how to endure it so that we can get to the end
of it. Let me read that out of the
amplified. You will be hated by everyone
because of your association with me and my name, but the one who
will patiently persevere, empowered by the Holy Spirit
will endure to the end. Come on, and we'll be safe.
See again, it's not by our willpower.
It's not by us saying, well, I'm, you know, sitting down on
the outside, but I'm standing up on the inside.
No, the only one standing up on the inside is the Holy Ghost
inside of me. Come on.
Empowering us to be able to endure through the process.
Amen. You can't do it in yourself.
And when you try to do it in yourself, you mess it up and
everything up. So we must be people that have
allowed this endurance to have it's perfect work within our
life. So that I'm telling you our
faith will be nourished and it will be supplied in the midst of
you walking through whatever it is that battle, that situation,
that storm. Come on, that financial crisis
when everything's telling you you're going to go bankrupt?
No, my faith is going to endure. You know why?
Because I am in covenant with Almighty God.
Because I am a faithful tither. Because I am a faithful giver.
Come on. Because I am a faithful servant
of the Lord Jesus Christ, I am going to see this financial
circumstance turn around for my favor.
Glory to God, and I'm going to come out on the other side.
That's what we call enduring faith, not crumbling, crushing,
you know, trying to figure out how you're going to make it.
No, this is what God said, that if I sow my seed, come on, that
if I sow my seed, oh, that he would multiply it some 3060 and
a hundredfold. So that's what you have to do
when you get into situations. But if you've not ever allowed
yourself to go through some perseverance in a trial and
you've worked it out on your own and you've done and, and, and
here you are faced with it again, listen, you're going to
be faced with it again and again and again and again until you
let him have his thorough work in you.
And he's saying, listen, those who endure till the end are the
ones that are going to be making it because we know the
Scripture, many are going to fall away in the end, fall away
from the faith, not the ones that aren't saved.
No, those that are of the faith, many are going to fall away from
the faith in the end. And I guarantee you it's because
these qualities have not been developed in their faith.
They've not learned how to persevere.
They've not learned how to endure Hallelujah.
They did not have consistent faith.
You see them when things are going really bad in church.
And then when things start going better, they go out.
They get out of church. You don't see them again.
Come on. I mean, doesn't take a, you
know, rocket science to figure these things out.
When all hell breaks loose, they run to the church.
Well, I got to got to do this. I got to tithe again.
I got to do this. I got to do that.
And then thank God turns it around because he's a merciful
God. He's a loving God.
He's a patient God. He's a long-suffering God.
No, what he wants is consistency, and when you learn
how to be consistent in the things that he said for us to
do, you'll see that perseverance grow, you'll see that endurance
grow within your life, and you'll see your faith being
nourished and supplied. Hallelujah.